Yangerousideas t1_jec8x6w wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:22 PM

The most striking for me was the metaphor for how it would be like to think a million times faster like an AI.

It goes something like: If Earth was in a box that can connect to an alien civilization's internet and humans could think a million times faster than the aliens. Then how would we interact with the aliens if we saw moral shortcomings. For example if we saw that the aliens bopped their kids on the heads regularly.

Anyways it made me think that not a lot of useful communication could happen between the two cultures and my goal would be to try to get the slow aliens to think faster or to ignore them.

Frumpagumpus t1_jecynxk wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:37 AM

he realizes AI can think so fast but apparently hasn't thought about how software forks all the time and shuts processes down willy nilly (he thinks death is silly and stupid but software does it all the time)

or other mundane details like what it would mean to mentally copy paste parts of your brain or thoughts or mutexes or encryption